I wasn’t looking for innovation—I was just trying to clean one room without frustration.
It seems like my search for the perfect floor-cleaning device never ends.
In addition to traditional natural, plant-based brooms, I have used vacuum cleaners of different types, with mixed opinions. The big ones come with several attachments. While they do a good job, these are an overkill for my need. I just want to sweep-clean one room. Also, the large ones are too noisy for my taste. I therefore soon shifted to simple stick models with minimal or no accessories.
The corded ones are decent, but the cord gets in the way of free, uninterrupted movement. And on some models, I may even have to change the switchboards to connect to, so I can reach all the corners of the room.
The cordless ones are a hassle to charge frequently, will not have good suction overall, and the boost mode—while decent—often leaves one without enough charge to sweep the entire room, and often not enough charge left to use even sparingly. The boost mode is mostly useless unless it was just charged before use.
In addition to these, the dust cup filters get clogged too quickly, considering that I have carpets and rugs also in my room, in addition to tiled floors.
Eventually, I shifted to the IKEA floor-cleaning broom set. This sounded like the simplest and easiest to use. It is zero noise, large particles and trash can be easily picked up, and emptying the trash is a daily affair that keeps things simple.
But it cannot clean carpets at all. On floor mats, it does some cleaning but not really a good job. And then, unlike vacuum cleaners, since it does not pick up extremely fine dust, often I am required to wet-mop the floor after sweeping. This is twice the work.
I am quite skeptical of robot vacuum cleaners, considering their small motors and also as an overkill by cost for my limited one-room use.
So my search for an ideal floor cleaning device never seems to end. And I am in the market again, as the cordless one I have anyway gave up on good charge holding.
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